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1672201

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Leadership: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in his Department have taken part in the Leading with Empowerment initiative since it was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	3107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>1,531 people registered to take part in the Leading with Empowerment initiative, which ran across Defence from October 2021 to December 2022.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 27/11/2023 17:32:30 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1674375

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Personal Injury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 122 of his Department's publication entitled Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023, how many Settlements of Other Personal Injury were agreed in the 2022-2023 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	4625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>13 cases were agreed in financial year 2022-23. The answer is based solely on the 'Other Personal Injury' claims category where damage payments over £300,000 were made in 2022-23 as published in MOD's Annual Report and Accounts but only those where the final settlement payment on damages has been made in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 05/12/2023 16:08:40 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1677760

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2023 to Question 3432 on Ministry of Defence: Fraud, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department have completed the Defence version of the Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption training package as of 13 December 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	6737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>83,085 (37%) Defence staff are recorded as having completed the Defence version of the Fraud, Bribery and Corruption training package hosted on the Defence Learning Environment since 13 December 2022 up to 13 December 2023. This does not include over 22,000 members of staff who have undertaken the Fraud, Bribery and Corruption course hosted on Civil Service Learning over the same period. Therefore some 47% of Defence staff have undertaken counter fraud awareness training in the past 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Defence staff numbers are taken as 225,920, as set out in UK Defence in Numbers 2022 (page 17).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 20/12/2023 14:09:40 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1679477

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what incentives the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) RAF provides for serving personnel to refer non-service personnel to join the Armed Forces.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	7776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p><strong>Army</strong></p><p>The Army is offering £500 to any serving soldier or officer who encourages someone to join the Army as a Regular or Reserve soldier. This incentive is known as the ‘Recruit Bounty Scheme’ and has been in place since July 2023.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Royal Navy</strong></p><p>To support the recruitment strategy, the Royal Navy has introduced a Bounty Scheme whereby a serving member of the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserves, Royal Marines or Royal Marines Reserves who encourages a civilian to join any of the different sections of the Royal Navy will receive a financial incentive payment of £500 when the new recruit begins their training.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Royal Air Force</strong></p><p>The Royal Air Force does not currently have a bounty scheme.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/01/2024 16:16:14 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1672714

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions: Pain
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications were received under the (a) War Pensions and (b) Armed Forces Compensation scheme for (i) primary and (ii) secondary chronic pain conditions attributable to service in the last three years; and how many such applications were (A) granted, (B) refused and (C) outstanding.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	3439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p><strong>War Pension Scheme</strong></p><p>Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2023, a total of 1,403 people had a disablement claim for at least one chronic pain condition under the War Pension Scheme, as detailed in the tables below:</p><p> </p><p>War Pension Scheme claims for at least one chronic primary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 1-100%</p></td><td><p>656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 0%</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at an unknown disablement percentage</p></td><td><p>188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>862</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>509</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,371</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>War Pension Scheme claims for at least one chronic secondary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 1-100%</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 0%</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at an unknown disablement percentage</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>23</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>32</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Armed Forces Compensation Scheme </strong></p><p>Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2023, a total of 536 people registered an injury/illness claim for at least one chronic pain condition under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS), as detailed in the tables below:</p><p><br> AFCS claims for at least one chronic primary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Claim accepted and award received for their claim</p></td><td><p>320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Condition accepted, however no award received</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>340</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>183</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>523</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>AFCS claims for at least one chronic secondary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Claim accepted and award received for their claim</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Condition accepted, however no award received</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to obtain condition information on outstanding claims under the WPS and AFCS. This is because the accepted/rejected medical condition information is only available to search once a claim has been cleared.</p><p> </p><p>Due to how the data is held and processed, the following should be noted:</p><p> </p><p><strong>WPS and AFCS<br> <br> </strong></p><ol><li>The information presented on WPS and AFCS relates to the number of people who have claimed for chronic pain.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Claimants identified with both a chronic primary and secondary pain condition have only been counted towards a primary condition to manage the risk of double counting.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>Claimants who have multiple chronic pain related conditions within either primary or secondary have an outcome of ‘accepted’ if any of the conditions have been accepted; otherwise, they are recorded as an outcome of ‘rejected’.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 01/12/2023 12:03:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1672632

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 79 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, how many people participated in the fraud, bribery and corruption training package in each year from 2019 to 2023 as of 23 November 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	3432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>A Defence version of the Fraud Bribery &amp; Corruption online training package was launched in 2021 for civil servants with the single Service specific versions launched in May 2022. The participation data for these courses is only available from May 2022 for all 4 combined variants as set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55,401</p></td><td><p>69,139</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to these figures, a proportion of Defence workers have continued to undertake the standard Civil Service version of the course hosted on the Civil Service Learning (CSL) platform. Defence continues to signpost its people to the MOD versions of the courses and has taken steps to remove the automatic reminders on CSL. Data for CSL is only available from 2021:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>49,000</p></td><td><p>44,000</p></td><td><p>22,013</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prior to May 2022, the training was only formally mandated for civil servants and service personnel who line managed civilian or contractors where their employer did not provide equivalent training.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 01/12/2023 12:00:55 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1690422

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces have been referred to the Prevent Scheme for what reasons since 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	14805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>A breakdown of referrals by category is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 28/02/2024 17:46:21 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1680879

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Bullying and Harassment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 22 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 1: Directive - Understanding Behaviours in Defence, published in June 2021, if he will publish the question set used in climate assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	8682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>A copy of the climate assessment question set, including a separate list of personal information gathered at the start of the survey, is provided in the attached documents.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name 20220401 - Climate Assessment Questions.docx title Climate Assessment Questions 2 file name Personal Information Gathered at the start of the survey_Climate Assessments (1)2.xlsx title Climate Assessments Survey's question first answered 15/01/2024 16:49:35 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1677766

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2023 to Question 3722 Ministry of Defence: Standards, into what further policy areas he plans a deep dive in the new year.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	6743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>A deep dive into the Conflicts of Interest policy will commence in the New Year. Subsequent deep dives will be commissioned by the Department’s Fraud, Ethics and Propriety Board.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 20/12/2023 14:12:23 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1678349

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Marketing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) marketing and (b) advertising in each financial year since 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	7167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>A full Departmental response could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The amount spent by the Department on advertising that is readily available can be provided for financial years 2019-20 which was £37,142,211; 2020-21 was £34,178,742; 2021-22 was £30,876,441; 2022-23 was £40,562,477; and for 2023-24 was £19,462,174 to date. The figures in this answer have been provided by the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, and the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP). The majority of expenditure is accounted for by advertising by the three branches of the Armed Forces and the MDP to aid recruitment. Marketing and additional advertising expenditure outside of this remit is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 21/12/2023 12:11:00 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle